When I practice listening to something, how should I go about it. My idea is to first read stories in satori reader that I’m gonna listen to and make sure I understand it fully, and then listen to it until I can comprehend every word. My listening sucks cuz I don’t consume enough Japanese material and now I’m trying to get serious about. But really I’m just kinda doing this without really knowing
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>My idea is to first read stories in satori reader that I’m gonna listen to and make sure I understand it fully, and then listen to it until I can comprehend every word.
The problem with this approach is that you can fool yourself into thinking you understand the spoken words, but you can only do so because you already know the story. You can miss stuff and your brain will fill in the gaps with existing knowledge. You can end up not learning much at all.
Personally, I’d do it the other way around. Find some text you haven’t read (Satori Reader is fine as a source) and then listen to it first. Start with one or two sentences at a time. Listen to them multiple times if needed until you think you have understood them. Then read the Japanese text to confirm, and finally the English equivalent to check for nuances you may have missed. When you go wrong, or just can’t do it, analyze the Japanese text to learn what you failed at. As you get better at it, increase the amount of text listened to.